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Leaked draft reports show the Trump administration is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of prisoner abuse, corruption, LGBTQ+ discrimination and other claims.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge in El Salvador ordered a lawyer from a prominent human rights organization who has been an outspoken critic of some of… ...
This week, a Tanzanian court postponed the politically motivated treason trial of political opposition leader Tundu Lissu for ...
Everyone has a right to trial without undue delay. That’s a key element of the right to a fair and public trial before an independent and impartial court.
Four men accused of carrying out last year's terror attack on the Crocus City Hall entertainment center near Moscow pleaded ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held on Tuesday that the Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria did not violate an applicant’s right to a fair trial and judicial impartiality. Bulgaria’s ...
"We need to respect athletes, we need to put their rights first," said the athlete, who was Olympic 800m champion in 2012 and 2016 and world champion in 2009, 2011 and 2017.
The coup in Niger of 26 July, 2023 destabilised the Sahel region, and West Africa as a whole. Two years on, human rights activists say the situation has worsened and continue to call for the release ...
Marking the anniversary of the July 2024 protests in Bangladesh, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called for accountability for the violations and crimes committed during the ...
Moroccan lawyers criticize the French justice system in the Achraf Hakimi case, citing serious legal breaches and lack of ...
Pakistan’s independent human rights commission has called on authorities to drop terrorism charges against a 7-year-old boy.
Leaked drafts of the State Department’s 2024 annual human rights reports reveal that the Trump administration is preparing to sharply scale back criticism of certain allied governments with extensive ...